Kim Moore, Erica Linsley, Mandy Millsap
Kim Moore graduated from Auburn University in 1999 with a Masters degree in Communication Disorders and recently received her Education Specialist degree from Piedmont College. She is ASHA certified with a current Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) and maintains Georgia licensure. Kim has previously worked in Cherokee County and other Gwinnett County schools and has been working here for 6 years. She is married and has two daughters.
Erica Linsley graduated from the University of Georgia in 1985 with a Masters degree in Speech Pathology and recently received her Education Specialist degree from Piedmont College. She is ASHA certified with a current Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC). Erica has previously worked at the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf and has been here for 20 years. She is married and has 2 cats and a dog.
Mandy Millsap graduated from Auburn University in 2001 with a Masters degree in Communication Disorders and recently received her Education Specialist degree from Piedmont College. She is ASHA certified with a current Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) and maintains Georgia licensure. Mandy previously worked in an Alabama city school system and has been here for 9 years. She is married with one daughter.
Our speech/language program is responsible for evaluating and serving school aged children in the areas of articulation, language, fluency, and voice.
Articulation refers to the actual physical production of sounds in speech. Speech development is a gradual process. It starts in infancy and continues through a child's seventh or eighth year. Children develop speech abilities at different rates and ages. Some children develop speech sounds faster or slower than the average child.
The area of language includes expressive and receptive skills. Expressive language refers to how an individual expresses himself/herself to others. Receptive language refers to how an individual understands what is said to him/her. Most children acquire the majority of language skills by age five. In order to accomplish so much in such a short amount of time, the process begins long before children actually say their first words. Children must learn words and their meanings, combine words to make understandable sentences, and use words and sentences to effectively communicate with other people.
Fluency refers to how smoothly sounds, words, phrases, and sentences flow together while speaking. Children who exhibit consistent disfluencies are often known to "stutter."
Voice is the sound produced by the vibration of the vocal folds. A child's voice should sound appropriate for his/her sex and age.
Review the list below if you have concerns that your child exhibits a speech and/or language problem.
Language:
Articulation:
Voice:
Fluency:
If you feel your child has difficulty with any of the above areas, please consult with your child's classroom teacher.